PITTSBURG, Kan. - The 24th-ranked Fort Hays State men's track and field team opened competition at the 2026 MIAA Outdoor Championships Friday (May 1) by claiming three trips to the finals in running events and posting one national qualifying mark. The Tigers are currently in sixth place with seven team points.
 
Farrin Mangelson ended the day with a fourth-place finish in the 10,000m, completing the 25 laps in 30:09.41 to collect five team points. The junior's time is fourth-best at FHSU during the DII era. He stayed with the front pack for the entirety of the race, leading at the halfway point and sitting just one second behind the leader with one lap to go before finishing 11 seconds off the pace.
 
Dean Clark earned two team points with a seventh-place finish in the long jump, posting a national-qualifying leap of 24-2.5 on his second attempt. Drew Tolar narrowly missed advancing to the finals, finishing in 10th with a top mark of 23-6.
 
Three runners moved on to Sunday's finals, including two in the 400m hurdles and one in the 100m. Jayden Michaelis ran the 400m hurdles in 53.09 to finish seventh, while Mayan Paz claimed the ninth and final spot in the finals with his time of 53.82. Nakari Morrical-Palmer was seventh in the 100m prelims, completing the straightaway in 10.54.
 
The Tigers will continue competition at the league meet on Saturday (May 2) with the prelims of the 200m, 800m and 110m hurdles and the finals in the 3,000m steeplechase and discus.
 
Full FHSU Results
Friday
100m Prelims
7th - Nakari Morrical-Palmer - 10.54 Q
13th - Brock Deterding - 10.79
 
400m Hurdles Prelims
7th - Jayden Michaelis - 53.09 Q
9th - Mayan Paz - 53.82 Q
13th - Lucas Kirk - 55.97
16th - Bryce Steffan - 57.30
 
10,000m
4th - Farrin Mangelson - 30:09.41 - 5 team points
11th - Chayse McCullough - 32:18.06
12th - Ty Raulston - 32:37.28
 
Long Jump
7th - Dean Clark - 24-2.5 - 2 team points *
10th - Drew Tolar - 23-6
16th - Ervin Fierro - 20-10.5
 
Saturday Schedule
200m Prelims
Drew Tolar
Nakari Morrical-Palmer
 
800m Prelims
Luke Wessel
Kamryn Golub
 
110m Hurdles Prelims
Bradley Nkosi
Brett Eckhardt
 
3,000m Steeplechase
Noah Morenz
Cole Krug
 
Discus
Kaeden Kasselman
Logan Willour
 
Sunday Schedule
100m Finals
Nakari Morrical-Palmer
 
1,500m
Noah Morenz
Taran Castro
 
5,000m
Farrin Mangelson
Hayden Nemechek
Austin Ritsema
 
400m Hurdles Finals
Jayden Michaelis
Mayan Paz
 
4x100m Relay
Brock Deterding, Nakari Morrical-Palmer, Bradley Nkosi, Drew Tolar
 
4x400m Relay
Nakari Morrical-Palmer, Jayden Michaelis, Brock Deterding, Drew Tolar
 
Pole Vault
Hunter Angove
Josiah Ball
Mason Younger
Brady Deges
Rylan White
Will Wegerer
 
Triple Jump
Dean Clark
 
Shot Put
Logan Willour
 
Javelin
Jackson Rumford
Dalton Meyers
Guy Tubbs
 
@ indicates All-MIAA performance
* indicates NCAA DII national qualifying performance
Q indicates qualified for Sunday's finals